[R] Trapping option settings

[David A Vavra]

Jim,

Thanks. 

It wasn't sure if merely overriding the options function by placing one in
the global environment would guarantee it would be the one actually called.
In any case, I didn't know how to identify the caller. This is quite helpful
and looks promising. I'll give it a try.

DAV




-----Original Message-----
From: jim holtman [mailto:jholtman at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 9:59 PM
To: David A Vavra
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Trapping option settings

Here is one way by redefining 'options' so you can check for 'width'
and then call the 'options' in 'base':


> options <-  # define 'options' in Global
+ function(...)
+ {
+     args <- list(...)  # get arguments
+     if ('width' %in% names(args)){  # see if 'width' is in them
+         .caller <- sys.calls()  # get where called from
+         if (length(.caller) == 1)  # called from command line
+             .caller <- "Rgui"
+         else .caller <- as.character(.caller[[length(.caller) - 1]])[1]
+         cat("width being changed:", args[['width']], "Called from",
.caller, '\n')
+     }
+     base::options(...)  # call the real options
+ }
>
>
> options(width = 123) # test at command line
width being changed: 123 Called from Rgui
> f.myfunc <- function() options(width = 456)  # within a function
> f.myfunc()
width being changed: 456 Called from f.myfunc
>




On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:01 PM, David A Vavra <davavra at verizon.net> wrote:
> Something has been changing the setting the width option to 10000 and not
> resetting it. It does this intermittently. What I would like to do is trap
> changing the setting so I can determine where the change is occurring and
> hopefully fix it.
>
> Is there any easy way to do this?
>
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